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Greater China en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. The whole territory of China, including China proper, Tibet, Manchuria, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.
    • The vast area of Greater China in its traditional sense holds within it five politicogeographic regions that have survived for centuries in one form or another and are still known today: Manchuria, Mongolia, Sinkiang, Tibet, and China Proper. 1959 October 14, G. Etzel Pearcy, Geographpic Regions of Asia: South and East, U.S. Department of State, via Google Books, page 8:
    • MTAC publications largely consist of pseudo-scholarly articles and books on the history, geography, politics, and, increasingly in later decades, culture of Mongolia, Tibet, and/or other ethnic groups within Greater China. 2022, Alessandra Ferrer, “The Republic of China's Fantasy Frontier: Shifting Portrayals of Mongolia in the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission”, in China Perspectives, number 131, →DOI, →ISSN, page 50:
    • Greater China is traversed by two immense mountain systems, which have their rise in the plateau of the Pamirs (q.v.), and which throw off numerous chains as they cross the continent. 1920, John H. Finley, William Peterson, Edward Parrott, editors, Nelson's Perpetual Loose-Leaf Encyclopædia: An International Work of Reference, volume 3, New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, page 90:
    • Is there any way out of this impasse? Seemingly, the Chinese government thinks that economic development and economic-cultural integration of the region within Greater China will stifle the demands for autonomy. But, can the sirens of wealth from Beijing arrive in time to exorcize the growing nationalist feelings in Tibet? 1996, Agnes Gaudu, “Tibet: 1995--the year of anniversaries”, in Australia & World Affairs, number 28, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN:
  2. The historic territories of China or its tributary states, or the imagined future territories of China, including e.g. Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Indochina, and Outer Manchuria.
    • The Chinese nationalist revisionism aims at expansion beyond its current borders while taking control of new territories which it claims should belong to “Greater China” based on historical and/or demographic claims. 2025, Benjamin Miller, “Explaining the Rising Chinese Nationalist Revisionism: Implications for Regional Stability”, in William R. Thompson, Thomas J. Volgy, editors, Reconsidering the East Asian Peace: Confluences, Regional Characteristics and Societal Transformations, Routledge, via Google Books, →DOI, →ISBN, page 143:
    • According to this understanding, not only are Taiwan, Tibet, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and Hong Kong part of ‘Greater China’, but also the islands and shoals of the South China Sea – anything within the nine-dash line. For the most extreme, even parts of Korea are included, specifically the territory of the ancient proto-Korean Kingdom of Goguryeo, 37 BC–AD 668 (Chase 2011; Horesh et al. 2014; Yahuda 2013), which, as Gries (2005b) points out, has more to do with national identity, specifically defining the ingroup and Chinese superiority (‘big brother status’) than political, economic, or security reasons. 2017 April 14, John M. Friend, Bradley A. Thayer, “The Rise of Han-Centrism and What It Means for International Politics”, in Studies In Ethnicity & Nationalism, volume 17, number 1, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, page 98:
    • Chinese imperial power for centuries exacted tribute from much of what is now Burma and Indo-China, and Chinese Communist maps today include these areas in "greater China." 1954 October 14, Chester Bowles, “A Fresh Look at Free Asia”, in Foreign Affairs, volume 33, number 1, Council on Foreign Relations, →DOI, →ISSN, page 55:
  3. Majority Chinese-speaking territories in East Asia taken as a whole.
    • Less obvious are the differences between cultures that are located fairly close together on the continuum. For example, let's look at Greater China: the constellation of the PRC, Hong Kong (culturally distinct from the rest of China) and Taiwan. 2005, Richard R. Gesteland, “Communicating Across The Great Divide”, in Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: Negotiating, Selling, Sourcing and Managing Across Cultures, 4 edition, Copenhagen Business School Press, via National Library of Norway, →ISBN, page 41:
    • [Robert] Theleen's theme is investing with entrepreneurs in "Greater China"—by which he means the region of 120 million Chinese encompassing Taiwan, Hong Kong and China's two southern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, all of which are rapidly becoming one integrated economy. 1992 August 3, Andrew Tanzer, “Greater China, greater profits”, in Forbes, volume 150, number 3, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 84:
    • 日本では色や柄があるデザインが売れにくいんだけど 中華圏だとこうゆうデザインの売り上げがいいんです 2017 [2014], Akiko Higashimura, chapter 74, in Sarah Alys Lindholm, transl., Princess Jellyfish, omnibus vol. 7, Kodansha Comics, translation of 海月姫 [Kuragehime], →ISBN, page 307:
    • Apple's own quarterly report shows iPhone revenues in Greater China, after three years of decline, rose an amazing 38% year–over–year in the December quarter, and now account for roughly one–fifth of Apple's total global sales. 2026 April 14, “iPhone dominates: Installed base and China sales hit all–time highs”, in Mac Life, number 243, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 5:

Translations (1)

cmn 大中華區 /大中华区 (economics: majority Chinese-speaking territories in East Asia taken as a whole)